Table 9 Indicators for each component of the plan

From: Integrating historic preservation into a wider framework of urban development through comprehensive planning: an evaluation of local comprehensive plans in U.S. state capitals

Indicator

Factual base

Historical context

1.01 Describes history of community

1.02 Defines communities’ sense of place

1.03 Identifies culture character of community

1.04 Describes archaeological context of community

1.05 Provides inventory/ maps of historic resources

1.06 Documents the lost sites

Historic preservation condition facts

1.07 Mapping protection zones

1.08 Describes current historic preservation status and major challenges

1.09 Defines property types of historic resources

Review of Threats

1.10 Inventories historical resources under imminent threat

1.11 Provides information of encroaching development

1.12 Identifies potential natural hazards

Goals

Goals reflecting commemorative value

2.01 Goal to protect integrity of historic resources

2.02 Goal to protect authenticity of historic resources

2.03 Goal to maintain cultural continuity of historic resources

2.04 Goal to protect cultural diversity

Goals reflecting practical value

2.05 Achieve economic objective through incorporating historical preservation

2.06 Maintain communities’ sense of place

2.07 Quality education from celebrating unique historic resources

2.08 Improve energy benefits through historical preservation

Goals easing the tension between historic preservation and other themes

2.09 Reduce conflict between alternative energy production and historic preservation

2.10 Balance overall lower density development and sprawl with historic preservation

2.11 Reduce conflict between urban renewal and historic preservation

2.12 Establish priorities for historic preservation

Inter-organizational Coordination

Inter-organizational Coordination

3.01 Identify stakeholders and their interests

3.02 Joint historic preservation program

3.03 Coordination with non-profit organizations

3.04 Incorporating historic preservation efforts with other programs /plans (Zoning, Land Use, and Growth Management)

3.05 Coordination with local preservation committee, nation/ state/ local agencies

3.06 Coordination with advisor groups (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation)

3.07 Coordination with land owners

3.08 Commitment of financial resources

Policies, tools, strategies

Regulations

4.01 Develop local regulations/ standards/ guidelines for historic preservation

4.02 Maintains updated information on inventory of historic resources through re-surveying and re-identifying

Restrictions

4.03 Adopts a demolition review process for historic resources

4.04 Minimizes the impacts of development on historic resources

Developments

4.05 Promotes rehabilitation, restoration, and expansion of deteriorating historic structures

4.06 Develops local heritage tourism programs

4.07 Promotes historic resources adaptive reuse

4.08 Revitalizes downtown through historic resources

Incentives

4.09 Adopts tax abatement program

4.10 Recognizes historic preservation award winners

4.11 Offers funding and technical support for historic preservation

Awareness and Education

4.12 Develops publications /media /presentations /information sharing (Document, Maps and GIS layer of historic resource information/ management plans for the historic resources)

4.13 Promotes historical preservation through public outreach and education programs

Implementation

Implementation

5.01 Responsibilities of designated coordination agency

5.02 Specifies time frame

5.03 Explanation of costs and funding

5.04 Joins comprehensive plan’s monitoring and updating mechanism and development continuum

5.05 Provision of sanctions